seen in Hull (a tanka)
down Whitefriargate
in shop doorways black bin bags
filled with unwanted
broken glass, cardboard boxes,
kitchen waste and mendicants
© coolhermit 2023
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down Whitefriargate
in shop doorways black bin bags
filled with unwanted
broken glass, cardboard boxes,
kitchen waste and mendicants
The “mendicants” seals this.
I can relate to this as I walk down Cricklewood Broadway at night.
phew, Bhi, I’d forgotten all about this one, 🙂
The street named here was where the White friars used to enter Hull in the middle ages (Hull’s history of inter-monastic handbags would shock the unwary reader) and I use mendicants as a hint towards beggars and poverty-vow monks – and we have no monks now but plenty of beggars